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https://spacedaily.com/d-within-the-first-few-months-of-life-every-bottlenose-dolphin-invents-a-unique-whistle-that-becomes-its-name-for-the-rest-of-its-life-and-other-dolphins-learn-that-whistle-remember-it-and/
PicassoCT
Spmewhere out there,there is a dolphin clan , listening to the name of rick roll, dreading the biggest monster of all the ip lawyer
salunatics
When we get a translator and learn every name is a variant of "bitch" . Bitch, bihitch, biiitch, etc
InfOracle
cousteau
OK but they get to choose their OWN names, rather than having some old folks impose one of their liking. How neat is that?
ActionJohnnie
Classic Flipper
AllegedlyUncleTonton
It's pronounced "Fwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiih!"
TheBlueMuppet
Dog name is just *butthole smell*
SirRealOfTheShire
The one who comes around the dock where I live if named “Fweee-fweee-fweee”. I think that means Jeff.
HillOfBeans
duktayp
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FishieStardust
Hello Caw
RichardPotato
The headlines on Space Daily are all like this and I love them all
Tolocamp
We are part of nature and all attempts to make us distinct in any meaningful way turn out to be mirages. When nature dies, as it currently does, we will die with it.
Mack1986
Some birds species (Robins i think?) Have unique songs that their young hear and become accustomed to in the nest and then use to find each other
wylkyn
Imagine being the first dolphins to choose their name and having "squeek" or "click" while dolphins now have to have something like "click click squeek bubble bubble tail-slap junior IV".
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
This is either a comment from someone very aware of The Wee Free Men or not…..
discostewsm
It's really awesome, considering how hard it is to whistle underwater.
StephenDaniels
How do you say 'Flipper' in Dolphin?
darthnerdus6236
'Well fuck my drag' - my dog knowing her name
FishieStardust
Imagine your first username or email (minus the @whatever being gone, and sure the digits too) and that's your name for the rest of your life. I think I was either karategirl or mansonite
GoddessPurpleFrost
That dolphins gonna feel extra cringe when it's older. Isn't that right SephirothXxX69Spooge?
FishieStardust
Sephiroth was PRET-TY cool though...
cousteau
…yeah I've been using some variation of cousteau for the past twenty-something years, so I guess some of us never grow out of that phase.
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
Imma guess, but I'd bet the house on the fact that like whales that spend their time talkin by screaming across the Ocean, fuckin Higher Corvids, African Grey Parrots, Macaws, even other higher Primates, have specific, personally identifying "sounds," or what we'd call names. Jesus fuck me, humans think so highly of themselves. -_-
Joecoin2
My cat has a number of different names.
Bizarkly
How many did he or she *choose*? (Not counting the ones you spontaneously invented in the middle of the night...)
Joecoin2
Roughly one third.
thatgirlfromthatplaceyouwentonetime
Bob ,Bob, Bob ect...
DYLANLEE79
I wonder if they ever change their names? I wonder if names are gendered?
neithermenoryou
I don't think dolphins do gender roles. Everyone does everything as they see fit or the need arises.
cousteau
Man, dolphins really do have it all figured out, don't they?
kit99aLucentum
Faaa ... Beee
nosnowyno
Pha want B now!
kit99aLucentum
Fa, find B! Stop B!
pinkmansaidthebest
"Steve". Dammit Steve!!!
notsurewhattocallthis
Godammit Moon Moon
Theshnazzyone
It feels like with all these things about dolphin communication we would have a translator by now.
wejustdontknow
We're too busy making plagiarism porn machines.
trinxter
Crows seems to have distinctive voices and calls.
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
Faeral hogs that get caught in traps and later escape will come back to the herd and tell the others about the traps and how to escape them rendering them useless. They are very smart so the time and effort to trap is frivolous. The most efficient way to deal with the exploding population and consequent destruction of ecosystems is, and im not joking when I say this, hunting them from a helicopter with large caliber rifles like the 308 https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OXM1NmZuOX
Mairoa
Oh they 10000% use names. The local crows call me [my bad imitation of a caw] using my human accent. The jays also refer to me by this name and I can hear them talking about me sometimes. They never made that weird caw before we became buddies and I'd call to them with the "food here" caw, now it's my name.
jemappelletosca
Yes, birds for sure have names, and use names. My parrot does a double-click noise when i enter the room. When my partner enters the room she says “Hello ,” because he taught her to say that.
Che07
Does this mean a bottlenose dolphin can "talk" the minute it is born? I just remembered my sons first sounds and that would be a horrific name.
WackyWavingInflatableArmFlailingTubman
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acidpigeon
"meet my son, 'WAAAAHHH'" 😂
khaoselement
Did you misread months as minutes? It's within months. Not saying it's a LOT better but I bet they develop faster.
Ostegonation
One of my cats calls my wife "mow-mow" and calls me "me-mow" without fail. We did not teach her this... She just started doing it one day.
cousteau
So you do know what your cat has named you!
Jordan7831
That’s so cute.
sarukane
KoalaOnTheJuice
One means "foolish servant" and the other means "servant who is more foolish still".
NoonaTuna
I rescued a kitten and my partner notice that he named me. it was kind of a chirp-meh sound. Giving him up was the hardest thing I've done in a long time. I have a really bad allergy, and couldn't breathe.
cousteau
Oh damn, I'm so sorry for that loss. Hope he's doing OK (and has named the new owner/servant)
NoonaTuna
Thank you; I found him a great home. He very happy and I get to visit. He climbs me like a tree and still makes that sound when he sees me. Your post got me digging thru my phone for his pics. Bittersweet.
androgenoide
It has since become clear that other animals also have names. At this point the question is how many of them have complex communication systems?
LinemanMatt
Oh sure they have names, but they REFUSE to wear the name tags I made them.
LincLoud
Do octopus? Octopuses? Octopi? Octopodae? Whatever
Camelspotting
Different Orca pods have different languages and diets. Probably enough to call it a culture.
ninjafartball
Whales, apes, some insects...
androgenoide
Elephants also have names.
jemappelletosca
Birds (through their signature calls)
ninjafartball
Oh yea penguins know each other by song...
devasto
Didn't some university do a study on crows where they caught and tagged a bunch, and then harassed them while the researchers wore masks to see if the crows would remember them? The tagged crows started dive bombing them when they wore masks. Then, they started getting attacked by non-tagged crows. Meaning that the crowd were able to inform other crows "This mother fucker, specifically"
JackieTreehornProductions
Yes and they passed that information down to new generations so they know those people suck even though they didn’t know why
whoahman
Dang... thats some seriously next level Jim Crowism.
StarscreamAndHutch
They mostly shout u want sum fuk?
BeaverOnFire
androgenoide
Yeah, mostly, but a lot of human songs and poetry are basically the same thing. It's the other stuff, the warnings and directions that are interesting.
GoSibi
Just like humans.
intrepidsea
We’ll probably never know because of the Holocene.
androgenoide
Anthropocene? Yeah, we'll lose a lot before we know what is gone.
joshuasplinth
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
Don't forget the Plasticene era, when nature was a bit more stop motion than today.
MrStealYourGiF
Then there was the early Democene where everything was 8 bit.
fallenpenguin82
Look up the video on whale language. I believe it saw it here first, but whales having an actual language they pass down, and it's different between tribes/families.
androgenoide
There are some videos showing that prairie dog warning calls encode information about size, color, shape and species of an intruder. The warnings are relatively easy to figure out but they make a lot of other sounds as well.
Pacaruru
This feels like the kind of discovery that goes from "like, none of them" to "basically all of them" very quickly
MenloPart
One is an anomaly and two are a pattern.
thatoneguyfrommn
I would think that many non-European/non-white Jesus cultures would have known this for ages.
androgenoide
All living things exchange information with their environment. The simple chemical signalling of bacteria can sometimes result in surprising behavior. Plants can be more sophisticated than that without using anything close to language.
calebIsOnFire
Plants communicate.
PinkyTheUnicorn2
Other than the apes/sign language thing, it’s pretty interesting that the vast majority of major discoveries about animal intelligence is that animals are MORE intelligent than we thought, not less.
cousteau
We have trouble perceiving intelligence when it is different to the type we're used to.
Froggie243
I'm personally not surprised at all. We like to thump our chests and feel superior while ignoring the fact that we don't speak their language and therefore could be missing out on all sorts of things. And the fact that we assign so much importance to intelligence expressed through language also means that we miss out on a ton even in our own behavior.
JaelitheKitty
Very true, as we have body language. Most animals go off that, as they don't have speech. It's the most honest way to communicate that a lot of people won't consciously consider even though they see it and subconsciously know what's up. Mostly
mouthfullofpebbles
I hang out with crows every day, and the possibilities of communication is really cool. They do have a vocal language though, and having spent so many years with the same individuals it's almost impossible not to learn it. For example, one single caw will tell me that crow A has seen me, and is telling crow B about it, and also somehow where I am! It sounds different if she wanted to tell crow C instead! It's simplified in a way that makes it extremely complicated to my human language.
JaelitheKitty
That'd be amazing to experience. I can tell when the crows around here are agitated but haven't had the time even though I'd love it to learn further. Congrats
cousteau
I swear I could "hear" a dog say thank you to me with body language once after I helped them drink water from a push-button operated fountain. What a polite little fella.
JaelitheKitty
I see it every day with my cats. The lazy gait, the question mark tail, the slow blinks. Absolute love language.